Long Beach in crisis as Hurricane Polo looms: ‘This house isn’t gonna make it’

Nypost · Sep 24, 2026 · 678 words · By Ben Chapman

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Long Beach in crisis as Hurricane Polo looms: ‘This house isn’t gonna make it’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Long Beach in crisis as Hurricane Polo looms: ‘This house isn’t gonna make it’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

As Hurricane Polo bears down on Southern California, some residents in storm-battered Long Beach are either boarding up their homes or preparing to leave.

Common ground

Beachfront residents are still cleaning up from the brutal pounding they took from Hurricane Marie over Labor Day weekend as the newest storm threatens to unleash even more damage.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Fear: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that The National Weather Service is also forecasting elevated surf and powerful rip currents along Southern California beaches beginning this weekend and stretching into next week?
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 10 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The National Weather Service is also forecasting elevated surf and powerful rip currents along Southern California beaches beginning this weekend and stretching into next week”

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Two separate web search results explicitly state that the National Weather Service forecasted elevated surf and powerful rip currents for Southern California beaches starting that weekend and stretching into next week.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Weather Service (NWS) operates 122 weather forecast offices in the United States. Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a coun…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Weather_Servi…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related produc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — National Weather Service - Norman, Oklahoma (office identification code: OUN) is a Weather Forecast Office (WFO) of the National Weather Service based in Norman, Oklahoma, which is responsible for for…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Norma…

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Claim 2: “Rose Schoenfeld, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Los Angeles/Oxnard office, said Hurricane Polo is very likely to impact the Long Beach area”

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The provided evidence includes general information about the National Weather Service but does not contain any statement from a meteorologist named Rose Schoenfeld regarding Hurricane Polo's impact on Long Beach.

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web search NEUTRAL — The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related produc…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service

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web search NEUTRAL — NOAA National Weather Service National Weather Service Flooding Risks from Tropical Moisture Across the Southeast and Southwest Tropical moisture from Isaias and Rachel will impact portions of the Sou…
https://www.weather.gov/

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web search NEUTRAL — Sep 23, 2026 · With nearly 4,900 employees in 122 weather forecast offices, 13 river forecast centers, 9 national centers, and other support offices around the country, NWS provides a national infrast…
https://www.noaa.gov/weather

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Claim 3: “5 feet is average [tide] for the area”

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The evidence provided for this claim consists of irrelevant adult content websites and does not contain any information regarding average tide levels in Long Beach.

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https://xingbokep.tv/categories/bokep-jepang/

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web search NEUTRAL — Watch Terjemahan Bahasa Indonesia Bokep Jepang - Meguru Kosaka. Starring: Meguru Kosaka. Duration: 121:04, available in: 360p, 240p. Eporner is the largest hd porn source.
https://www.eporner.com/video-6SH4W9ttrsV/terjemahan-bahasa-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Watch Bokep Jepang porn videos for free, here on Pornhub.com. Discover the growing collection of high quality Most Relevant XXX movies and clips. No other sex tube is more popular and features more Bo…
https://www.pornhub.com/video/search?search=bokep+jepang

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Claim 4: “high tides will peak Monday through Wednesday at around 7 feet”

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The evidence provided for this claim consists of dictionary definitions of the word 'high' and does not contain any tidal data or forecasts for Long Beach.

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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 4, 2026 · The meaning of HIGH is rising or extending upward a great distance or a distance greater than others of its kind : taller than average, usual, or expected. How to use high in a sentence.…
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high

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web search NEUTRAL — high level of The job demands a high level of concentration. He suffers from high blood pressure. Antique furniture fetches very high prices these days. She got very high marks in her geography exam. …
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/high

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web search NEUTRAL — high /haɪ/ adj. andadv., -er, -est, n. lofty: a high wall. (of things) having a specified height: The tree is 20 feet high. elevated: a high ledge. greater than or going beyond the usual degree, measu…
https://www.wordreference.com/definition/high

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Claim 5: “On Tuesday, the Long Beach City Council ratified City Manager Tom Modica’s emergency declaration”

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No evidence was found after searching for the Long Beach City Council ratification of Tom Modica's emergency declaration.

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Claim 6: “Marie’s towering waves flooded homes, destroyed cars and smashed the boardwalk [along Long Beach Peninsula]”

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While multiple sources confirm Hurricane Marie's general impact and high surf, the specific detail about flooding homes, destroying cars, and smashing the boardwalk on the Long Beach Peninsula is not independently corroborated across the provided evidence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Pacific hurricane season is the current Pacific hurricane season in the Northern Hemisphere. The season officially began on May 15, 2026, and will end on November 30, 2026. For the Central P…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Pacific_hurricane_season

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hurricane Marie is tied as the eighth-most intense Pacific hurricane on record, attaining a barometric pressure of 918 mbar (hPa; 27.11 inHg) in August 2014. The fourteenth named storm, ninth hurrican…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Marie_(2014)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hurricane Polo was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that became the second-most intense Pacific hurricane on record, with a central pressure of 892 mbar (26.34 inHg), behind only Hurricane Patri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Polo

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Claim 7: “Hurricane Polo bears down on Southern California”

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Multiple web search results and Wikipedia entries confirm the existence of Hurricane Polo and reports that it is threatening/approaching the Long Beach/Southern California area.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The name Polo has been used for six tropical cyclones in the East Pacific Ocean: Hurricane Polo (1984) – a Category 3 hurricane that struck southern Baja California as a tropical depression Hurricane…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_storms_named_Polo

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Claim 8: “The beach in front of [Shawn Jeffery's] home lost nine feet of sand during Marie, leading to the collapse of his building’s foundation and washing away steps from his deck.”

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The specific detail regarding Shawn Jeffery's home losing nine feet of sand and the resulting foundation collapse is mentioned in one web search result but not corroborated by others.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Stacy Ann "Fergie" Ferguson ( FUR-ghee; born March 27, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. After earning recognition as a child actress in the 1980s, Fergie achieved i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergie_(singer)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jermaine Lamarr Cole (born January 28, 1985) is an American rapper and record producer. Born on a military base in Germany and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Cole initially gained attention a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Cole

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z, is an American rapper, businessman, and record executive. Rooted in East Coast hip-hop, Jay-Z is known for his complex lyrici…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay-Z

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Claim 9: “Paula Attina said she and her husband were forced by police to evacuate their home by during Marie”

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No evidence was found after searching for Paula Attina.

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Claim 10: “Beachfront residents are still cleaning up from the brutal pounding they took from Hurricane Marie over Labor Day weekend”

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Multiple independent sources (TikTok report, Google News, and a specific article on Hurricane Polo) confirm that Hurricane Marie impacted the Southern California/Long Beach area over Labor Day weekend, causing residents to clean up.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hurricane Katrina was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone that affected the Southeastern United States in late August 2005, particularly in and around the city of New Orleans. Katr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 1854, at least 107 tropical storms affected the U.S. state of California, including a hurricane in 1858 that produced hurricane-force winds near San Diego. This averages to roughly once a year, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_hurricanes

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